evolutionary fitness

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryandfitness

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evolutionary
adjective
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/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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fitness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɪt.nəs/us
/ˈfɪt.nəs/
the condition of being physically strong ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandfitnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This ability is adaptive because it makes appropriate decisions more likely and thus increases the animal'sevolutionaryfitness.
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Wakefield's (1992, 1993, 1997, 1999) harmful dysfunction analysis reflects an essentialist philosophy, as disturbances in behavior are assumed to be caused by biological dysfunctions that impactevolutionaryfitness.
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Other medical journal articles have discussed additional aspects of this possible link between vasovagal syncope andevolutionaryfitnessin blood-injection-injury phobias.
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First, inbreeding forces competition with relatives, which decreases theevolutionaryfitnessof the species.
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Promiscuity increases the likelihood of having children, and thusevolutionaryfitness.
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Within the individual haystacks the selfish organisms benefit in terms ofevolutionaryfitness.
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This can, among other things, result in the formation of complex social processes conducive toevolutionaryfitness.
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Through evolution, species adapt and improve, but also gain in beauty, which he claimed was a byproduct ofevolutionaryfitness.
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First, if the period for learning is short, language does not develop as well, and thus decreases theevolutionaryfitnessof the individual.
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Biologists contend that all social animals, from ants to elephants, have modified their behaviors, by restraining immediate selfishness in order to improve theirevolutionaryfitness.
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An evolutionary psychology perspective is that utility may be better viewed as due to preferences that maximizedevolutionaryfitnessin the ancestral environment but not necessarily in the current one.
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A basic economic concept such as utility may be better viewed as due to preferences that maximizedevolutionaryfitnessin the ancestral environment but not necessarily in the current one.
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